• Jacopo Piccinino (1423 – July 1465) was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, the son of military leader Niccolò Piccinino. A native of Perugia, he was...
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  • Francesco Piccinino (c. 1407 – 1449), Italian condottiero Jacopo Piccinino (1423–1465), Italian condottiero and nobleman Niccolò Piccinino (1386–1444)...
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    Niccolò Piccinino (1386 – 15 October 1444) was an Italian condottiero. He was born in Perugia, the son of a butcher. Piccinino was introduced in the guild...
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    Niccolò Piccinino, (1386-1444), making him the adopted brother of Jacopo Piccinino (1423-1465). Francesco earned a reputation as a gallant warrior serving...
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  • Venetians and, as a result of the defeat the Serenisima Republica removed Jacopo Piccinino from command of its armies. The Treaty of Lodi was signed the next...
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  • commanded by Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan. In the next year, Jacopo Piccinino (at the head of the Serenissima's army), brought back Pontevico after...
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    Bergamo and a big part of the Bassa Bresciana, during the spring 1453 Jacopo Piccinino, commander of the venetian army, retaked the lost territories. His...
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  • and the Anguillara, made overtures to the condottiero Jacopo Piccinino, son of Niccolò Piccinino, who was fighting for René d'Anjou. Violence erupted in...
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  • located a garrison of around 500 men. Jacopo Piccinino could count on over 5000 infantrymen. On May 25th, Piccinino placed the bombards in front of the...
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    Verme. Drusiana Sforza (30 September 1437 - 29 June 1474), married Jacopo Piccinino. with Brigida Caimi (daughter of Franchino Caimi) Giovanni Maria (Milan...
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    Galeazzo Visconti and his successor Francesco I Sforza, dukes of Milan, Jacopo Piccinino and Federico II da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino. The city went into...
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    co-regent of the Duchy. Visconti also promoted a marriage between Jacopo Piccinino, the son of Niccolò, and Drusiana, Sforza's illegitimate daughter....
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  • – September 1449: Siege of Lodi. Lodi (Venice) holds out against the Piccinino brothers (Ambrosian Republic) and joins Sforza End July – 15 September...
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    was Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini, the Prince of Taranto, and Jacopo Piccinino, a famed condottieri who had been invited by the Angevins. Francisco...
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    rely on a large number of men and the use of bombards. In May 1453, Jacopo Piccinino, commanding the Venetians, besieged the fortress, trying to make use...
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  • Mount Vesuvius. John's forces were strengthened by reinforcements from Jacopo Piccinino, who on the 27th defeated papal and Milanese forces under Alessandro...
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    frequently ravaged, notably in 1447 by Alfons V of Sicily and in 1455 by Jacopo Piccinino. Sienese rule ended in 1559, when Charles V handed over the whole duchy...
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    the marriage risked skipping due to the sudden death of the leader Jacopo Piccinino, son-in-law of Francesco Sforza. Ferrante of Aragon in fact had previously...
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  • Benvoglienti. cols. 1–64. Porcellio Pandoni: Commentaries of Count Jacopo Piccinino (Commentaria comitis Iacobi Picinini) in 1352, during the war between...
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  • After a winter rest, in March 1453 the war started again. On May 29th, Jacopo Piccinino brought back Pontevico under Serenissima. In October, Francesco Sforza...
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  • Milanese victory 1453, May 25 - 29 Pontevico, Lombardy Wars in Lombardy Jacopo Piccinino — Milanese army under Francesco Sforza Venetian victory 1453, June...
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    the Papal States. In 1458, the captain of Perugia and Lord of Assisi Jacopo Piccinino (1423 - 1465 built the polygonal tower north - occidentale, which was...
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    gratitude for the Aragonese and rekindling in them the love of glory. Jacopo Piccinino, who commanded the allied army and observed its discomfort, demanded...
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    defended by the Malatesta attempts of reconquest. In 1465 the condottiero Jacopo Piccinino had been summoned to Naples to receive the position as viceroy of Abruzzi...
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    Sforza regained the town after a two days-siege, but the next year Jacopo Piccinino brought back Pontevico under the Serenissima. The decisive clash was...
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  • Verme; Drusiana Sforza (30 September 1437 - 29 June 1474), married Jacopo Piccinino. Other sources also attribute two more of Francesco's illegitimate...
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  • Niccolò Piccinino, defended Bellinzona but was defeated at Orzinuovi and Soncino. In 1446, for Visconti, he besieged Cremona with Francesco Piccinino, but...
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    to 17, 1462, the castle was damaged and looted during the siege by Jacopo Piccinino and his army, in collusion with Ruggero Accrocciamuro, who sought to...
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  • and two years later he crushed a Papal-Neapolitan force under Francesco Piccinino at Montolmo. In 1446, after spurring the town of Nepi to rebellion, he...
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    Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan. The Florentine troops, led by Niccolò Piccinino, ravaged the Lucchese countryside and besieged the city. Only the intervention...
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